Open science publications
What are open scientific publications?
Open scientific publications are scientific and research materials, available for further use, adaptation, correction and translation into other languages and redistribution, in accordance with the license granted. These resources can be textbooks, articles, syllabuses. They may cover a narrow field of study or provide a basis for bringing different disciplines together on a particular issue.
Browsers for journals, books and articles
- DOAJ – worldwide journal catalog
- PAPERITY – multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals
- PLOS – publisher's platform of 7 journals in the field of broadly understood science, technology and medicine
- OER World Map – Map of Open Educational Resources
- ScienceOpen.com – an interactive research communication platform
- SciELO – platform of scientific journals published in Latin America, Spain and Portugal
- AJOL – a platform of scientific journals published in Africa
Books and textbooks
- DOAB – full-text scientific books
- OAPEN – online library and academic book publishing platform
- OpenStax.pl – peer-reviewed academic textbooks
- Open AGH e-podręczniki – academic textbooks prepared by academic teachers of AGH
- IntechOpen – the platform helps in publishing books and then making them available in OA
- OpenTextbookLibrary – textbooks used in the environment of universities and scientific institutions
- Ryerson University Pressbook – peer-reviewed academic textbooks
Databases
- BASE – search engine of academic internet resources
- LOADB – open access database directory
- ChemSpider – database of chemical structures and texts
- ChEMBL – a chemical database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties
Open repositories
- CeON - repository of Centre for Open Science for research output of Polish scholars
- OpenDOAR – global Directory of Open Access Repositories
- ROAR – the Registry of Open Access Repositories
Add-ons/Web extensions
A usefull tool in discovering open access publications are specialized web extensions that can be a part of web browsers. They work by recognizing an artile or a book open in a browser window, that are behind a paywall, and then searching the web to find a full-text, legally open version. The extensions are free, may require creating an account and each of them can work on selected browsers.
If you have any questions you can reach us here: open.access@pk.edu.pl